Episode 39, 'The Philosophy of Perception' with Bence Nanay

Bence Nanay is Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Antwerp and Research Associate in
philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Nanay is also the
principal investigator of the European Research Council project,
Seeing Things You Don’t See: Unifying the Philosophy,
Psychology and Neuroscience of Multimodal Mental
Imagery.

It will, therefore, come as no surprise that our focus today
will be Nanay’s work in the field of ‘philosophy of perception’. In
a rare intersection between psychology, neuroscience and
philosophy, ‘the philosophy of perception’ is concerned with the
status of perceptual data, the nature of perceptual experience, and
how this data and these experiences relate to beliefs about, or
knowledge of, the world.